Programme Alcine53

A camera crew documents the struggles of three friends who moved to a haunted apartment lured by its low rent.

A small community enters a state of collapse due to an environmental crisis and is adapting as best it can to the new reality. The privileged residents live a hedonistic life based on carpe diem, while the others struggle to survive with no alternative. What is yet to come? If there is nothing left, can anything save us?

An Iranian girl has been recording the palm tree in front of her house in north Spain in the city of Avilés for some time. From the stories that her mother had told her about the palm trees, she finds them similar to human beings and she worries about this palm tree since she feels that it´s suffering from something. During her search for answers she will discover another different story of the life of palm trees in Europe. As she progresses in her observation, these two realities of Middleast and West are brought into relation.

Moving images shot from the ground against moving images shot from the sky. The words of women, men and children against official speeches. People who don't want to move, "just like the pine tree by the riverbank". A valley turned into a reservoir. Class struggle lies underground... and underwater.

The puncture of a wheel surprises the protagonist traveling as a passenger in a car. Stopped at the edge of the road while watching the driver change the tire, she wonders if that path is heading in the right direction.

Although they barely know each other, Inés and Guille quickly connect, showing an unusual complicity for a first date. It even seems as if the sweltering heat has ceased as they sleep together. Inés wants them to watch the sunrise together before they fall asleep. 

Carmen and Lucía, grandmother and granddaughter, are unable to find their way back home after an episode of disorientation experienced by Carmen.

Combining quiet observation and moments of fantasy, 'In a Nearby Field' is a film about support, heredity and the invisible little labors which sustain us.

A feeling of emptiness, a restless mind and two pieces of land. What is born from the void that unites them? “Wildflower” is a poetic essay about the undesirable, the lack of control and duality that seeks to explore the different possibilities of interaction between human beings and the uncontrollable side of nature.

Lorea's reference points are her mother and her grandmother. Through these two generations she observes the bond that women have experienced around motherhood. Now it is up to her to decide whether or not to become a mother herself and to look for answers to pending questions.

On February 2, 2022, I sent the following message: “A Google Street View car just passed in front of me, now I’m going to appear on Google Maps on Granada Street.” And so it was, Google Maps encapsulated a specific moment. It encapsulated a specific Dani.

The great animation-films director, Hayao Miyazaki, has announced his retirement. But the muses of inspiration have other plans for him.

Ana (28) and her mother, Sonia (55), help Gonzalo (58), father of a family and victim of a degenerative disease, to prepare a staging aimed at filming his own suicide, when the time comes, in complete solitude.

A young woman goes to meet her mother, a renowned theater actress, after time apart. The tension between them will bring up old grudges from the past, although neither of them knows that they need each other more than they want to admit.

In this day and age, Rebeca attempts to create a collection of non-phallic ceramic dildos. During the Inquisition, Josefa finds a dildo that is used in their forbidden love relationship with Maria. Although in different timelines, the paths of Rebeca and Josefa end up crossing each other.

From role playing games to animated GIFs, from reenacted performances to poetic writing, this video essay asks: what is an authentic expression of anger?

Sylvie and Karim have given it a lot of thought. At every breakfast and on every walk from the loo to the bathroom. They're ready to put the money they earned from scrubbing toilets and cleaning up the Bellevue Hotel into Sylvie's latest aspiration: acquiring a domestic football player.

It is the last day of the year and night falls on the small town of Toyama, Japan. A man goes to the public bath to retrieve a forgotten object. But once inside, the promise of a hot bath compels him to stay.

"UNGLÜCKLICHE STUNDE"’s first shot is already a source of charm and joy: as the door of an apartment building closes inexplicably slowly, the glass panel reveals the dim reflection of a woman who has just left home to go about her day. The next shot will bring both comedy and tragedy. The same woman is looking desperately for her backpack and her day won’t be easy: she has locked herself out and her ex-partner is the only one with a spare key. A portrait of the tiny annoyances and dramas of life comes into focus, capturing the unlikely beauty of familiar street-corners and old friends.